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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Camera Behind the New Pluto Photos
For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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Virtual Medical Training: Don’t Call It Virtual Reality
Medical professionals prefer to reference the technology with terms that are "less sci-fi."
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Nasa's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto.
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How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debate
NASA's New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size.
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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The Social Security Number's Insecurities
In both the Anthem insurance hack and the two Office of Personnel Management hacks this year, attackers gained access to Social Security numbers, affecting 80 million...
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Collaborative Photography App Allows Smartphones to Record 'bullet Time'
Anyone can now create "bullet-time" movies using collaborative photography techniques on their smartphones.
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Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children...
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Nasa Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is the world's best-known dwarf planet?
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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There May Be Infinite niverses—and Infinite Versions of You
In another universe you might have become the president of Micronesia. Or a pauper, subsisting on ketchup.
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins
After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations...
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Manhattan Da: Iphone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Time
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.
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IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip
IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today's most powerful chips.
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The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes
At 17 minutes past midnight on Saturday 25 April, Rob Sanders's computer started chiming with alerts.
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Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future
A crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is performing routine maintenance.
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FBI Chief Warns Encryption Emboldens Would-Be Islamic State Attackers
Barring law enforcement authorities' access to encrypted communications would make it easier for Islamic State sympathizers to attack the United States, FBI Chief...
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